Just today as far as I can tell, eBird launched a new feature that threatens to clog my inbox. It’s not enough that they already … Read More
Birding resources online- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is a great state to bird in; we have enough elevation change to afford us a large diversity of breeding and migrating warblers, we … Read More
County Listing
Birders keep lists- life lists, year lists, state lists, birds on a wire list, birds seen from the sunroof- it’s one of the quirky things … Read More
eBird Tutorial- Merging personal locations to hotspots
One of the cornerstones of the whole eBird system is the idea of hotspots. Hotspots allow people to submit sightings for a common location and … Read More
Tutorial- eBird recent sightings gadget
I was recently asked if there was a way to see all the birds recently reported to eBird for particular locations. It would be a … Read More
More Shiloh Rd Rough-legged Hawks
I stopped by the Shiloh Rd grasslands yesterday and a light morph roughleg was perched right in the interchange, oblivious to all the traffic around … Read More
Pennsylvania eBird comparison
After posting the graphs of eBird submissions in Centre County I ran through the View and Explore Data part of eBird and did the same thing … Read More
Centre County, PA eBird
Since it was launched in 2002, eBird has been providing birders with an easy way to keep track of their sightings and the satisfaction of … Read More
On the power of submitting more to eBird
Tim Schreckengost and I spent several hours this morning walking around Toftrees in search of sparrows and any lingering birds that hadn’t been scared south … Read More
Grasshopper Sparrow abundances
eBird has just started releasing some really neat animations of the abundances of birds throughout the year. They have been giving some supercomputer processor time … Read More